Symphony Concert N° 7
Mitwirkende
- Daniele Gatti Conductor
- Sara Blanch Soprano
- Christian Gerhaher Baritone
gespielte Werke
Gustav Mahler
- »Der Schildwache Nachtlied« from »Des Knaben Wunderhorn«
- »Das irdische Leben« from »Des Knaben Wunderhorn«
- »Lied des Verfolgten im Turm« from »Des Knaben Wunderhorn«
- »Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen« from »Des Knaben Wunderhorn«
- »Revelge« from »Des Knaben Wunderhorn«
- »Der Tamboursg'sell« from »Des Knaben Wunderhorn«
- Symphony No. 4 in G major
Initially focusing on the four »Wunderhorn« symphonies, Daniele Gatti continues his Mahler cycle with the Fourth. To elucidate the internal connections within this work, Gatti combines it with six songs from the original collection »Des Knaben Wunderhorn«. The Fourth is the composer’s shortest and most accessible symphony. With its bright and cheerful atmosphere, it is something of a contrast to the rather more sombre first three symphonies. Three instrumental movements open the work before the last movement presents an innocent, even childlike »Wunderhorn« song performed by a soprano, creating a mood of unadulterated bliss that is rare in Mahler.
- Sunday2.3.2511:00 UhrSemperoperTicket price:
45 – 82 € - Monday3.3.2519:00 UhrSemperoperTicket price:
36 – 82 € - Tuesday4.3.2519:00 UhrSemperoperTicket price:
36 – 82 €
A concert introduction will be offered 45 minutes before the beginning of each performance in the opera cellar of the Semperoper.
Daniele Gatti
Daniele Gatti has been Principal Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden since the 2024/2025 season. He made his debut with the orchestra in February 2000 at the invitation of the then Principal Conductor, Giuseppe Sinopoli, with a programme featuring works by Mendelssohn, Hindemith and Brahms. Over the following years, the Italian maestro returned several times to Dresden. Gatti’s mastery of the Staatskapelle’s core repertoire, his visionary interpretations and keen sense of the sound and unique traditions of this historic ensemble are an assurance of outstanding concert experiences. In his second season, he continues the Staatskapelle’s first complete Mahler cycle with the »Vienna Years«.
In addition to his post in Dresden, Daniele Gatti is also Chief Conductor of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Music Director of the Orchestra Mozart and, since 2016, Artistic Advisor to the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. In the same year, he took up a teaching post at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena.
Born in Milan in 1961, Gatti studied composition and orchestra conducting at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in his home city. He made his debut at La Scala at the age of 27. This was followed by permanent engagements with leading music institutions such as the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, London’s Royal Opera House, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. He was subsequently Principal Conductor of the Orchestre National de France (2008-2016), the Zurich Opera House (2009-2012) and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam (2016-2018), as well as Music Director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma until 2022. Gatti is also a popular guest conductor, appearing for example with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala.
Equally in demand in the field of opera, Daniele Gatti has conducted major new productions such as Robert Carsen’s staging of »Falstaff« in London, Milan and Amsterdam, »Parsifal«, staged by Stefan Herheim, which opened the Bayreuth Festival in 2008, as well as a production of the same opera by François Girard at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and four operas at the Salzburg Festival: Richard Strauss’s »Elektra«, Puccini’s »La bohème«, Wagner’s »Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg« and Verdi’s »Il trovatore«.
In 2008, he conducted »Don Carlo« to open the new season at Milan’s La Scala as well as »Lohengrin«, »Lulu«, »Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg«, »Falstaff« and »Wozzeck«. As part of Verdi’s birthday celebrations in 2013, he conducted »La traviata«, again launching the new season at La Scala.
He has opened several seasons of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with works such as Wagner’s »Tristan und Isolde«, Berlioz’s »La damnation de Faust«, Verdi’s »Rigoletto« and »Les vêpres siciliennes«, Rossini’s »Il barbiere di Siviglia« and the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s »Julius Caesar«. In 2023, he conducted Verdi’s »Falstaff« and all of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies as part of the 85th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino festival.
In 2024, he conducted the opening concerts of the new seasons of both the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Vienna Philharmonic before going on tour with both ensembles through Europe’s music capitals. In summer 2025, he will return to the Bayreuth Festival for the new production of »Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg«.
Daniele Gatti’s extensive discography testifies to his broad repertoire. For Sony Classical, he has recorded works by Debussy and Stravinsky with the Orchestre National de France as well as a DVD of Wagner’s »Parsifal«, performed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. As part of the »RCO Live« series, he conducted the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in recordings of Berlioz’s »Symphonie fantastique«, several Mahler symphonies, a DVD of Stravinsky’s »Le sacre du printemps« also featuring Debussy’s »Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune« and »La mer«, a DVD of Strauss’s »Salome« at the Dutch National Opera and a CD of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 paired with the Prelude and »Karfreitagszauber« from Wagner’s »Parsifal«. In 2019, C-Major released a DVD of Wagner’s »Tristan und Isolde« under the baton of Daniele Gatti, staged at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.
Daniele Gatti is a three-time winner of the »Franco Abbiati« Prize as Best Conductor, chosen by Italy’s music critics, and in 2016 was named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French Republic for his work as Music Director of the Orchestre National de France. He also holds the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Sara Blanch
Born in Darmós (Tarragona), she studied at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona and currently receives advice of the soprano Mariella Devia.
She has been awarded in different competitions, among others the Montserrat Caballé, Mirabent i Magrans and Tenor Viñas 2016.
Among her future engagements: Médée at Teatro Real in Madrid, Le comte Ory in Bologna, Die Zauberflöte at the Wiener Staatsoper, Don Pasquale at the Royal Opera House in Muscat, Messiah at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Les Pêcheurs de perles in Cologne and L’Orontea at Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
After her successful debut in Barcelona with Lisistrata, by Albert Carbonell, she performed Britten's Little Sweep, Rita by Donizett and Orfeo ed Euridice, Un ballo in Maschera, La serva padrona, La cambiale di matrimonio and L’occasione fa il ladro in different Spanish theatres.
In 2013 she debuted at the Rossini Festival of Pesaro, performing the role of Folleville (Il Viaggio a Reims). In the same year she sang the role of the Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute) in Sabadell. She debuted at the Rossini in Wildbad Opera Festival in 2015 as Elvira (L'italiana in Algeri) and Aurelia in Lindpaintner’s Il Vespro siciliano, and came back in 2016 with Le Comte Ory and 2018 with Matilde di Shabran.
During her career she has debuted at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville and Teatro Verdi in Salerno (The Magic Flute), Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (Thaïs, L’italiana in Algeri and L’enigma de Lea), Teatro de la Zarzuela (Châteux Margaux / La viejecita), Teatro Real Madrid (The golden Cockerl, Thaïs), Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo (L'elisir d'amore and Il Turco in Italia), Peralada Festival (Thaïs) and Teatre Principal in Palma de Mallorca (L’elisir d’amore).
Recent commitments include: Aureliano in Palmira at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Lucia de Lammermoor in Oviedo and Palermo, Don Pasquale in Sevilla, Policías y ladrones at the Teatro de la Zarzuela, La clemenza di Tito at the Liceo, Don Giovanni in Perm, Adina and La scala di seta at Rossini in Wildbad Festival, Un ballo in maschera in Madrid and Barcelona, La fille du régiment at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, Falstaff in Valencia, L’elisir d’amore in Mallorca, Ariadne auf Naxos in Barcelona and Florence under Daniele Gatti, La Bohème in Rome, Il turco in Italia in Madrid, Lo sposo di tre e marito di nessuna, Orphée et Euridice and The Rake’s progress under Daniele Gatti in Florence, Die Zauberflöte at the Wiener Staatsoper as well as several concerts and recitals in France, Italy and Spain.
Christian Gerhaher
During his studies under Paul Kuen and Raimund Grumbach, German baritone Christian Gerhaher attended the Opera School of the Academy of Music in Munich and, together with Gerold Huber, studied lied interpretation with Friedemann Berger. While completing his medical studies Christian Gerhaher perfected his vocal training in master-classes given by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Inge Borkh. At present Christian Gerhaher himself teaches occasionally in select master-classes and is an honorary professor at the Academy of Music in Munich. He holds the title Bayerischer Kammersänger, is an honorary professor at the Munich Academy of Music and Theatre and bearer of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art.
Together with his regular piano accompanist Gerold Huber, Christian Gerhaher has devoted himself to lied interpretation for 30 years now, in concerts, recordings and in teaching, and they have been awarded major prizes. The lied duo can be heard on the stages of major international recital centres, for instance in the concert halls of New York, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Cologne and Berlin Philharmonie and the Cité de la musique in Paris. They are particularly frequent guests in the Konzerthaus and the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid as well as in the Wigmore Hall in London – there and in the Musikverein in Vienna Christian Gerhaher was artist in residence in recent years. He is a regular guest at festivals such as the Rheingau Music Festival, the London Proms, the Salzburg Festival as well as the Edinburgh and Lucerne Festivals.
Christian Gerhaher has performed together with conductors such as wie Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding, Herbert Blomstedt, Bernard Haitink, Christian Thielemann, Kirill Petrenko, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, Andris Nelsons, Kent Nagano and Mariss Jansons in the world’s major concert halls. Major orchestras which regularly invite Christian Gerhaher to perform include the London Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, and in particular the Berlin Philharmonic, where he was the first ever singer to be artist in residence, as well as the Swedish and especially the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Together with this ensemble, conducted by Daniel Harding, Christian Gerhaher recorded his first album of arias devoted to opera in the German Romantic era and for which he received the International Opera Award 2013. In the meantime another opera recital was issued on CD in 2015: Mozart Arias accompanied by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
The beginning of the 2020/21 season is overshadowed, as was the end of the past season, by the corona pandemic. Opera productions which had been planned for a long time, such as Wozzeck in Aix-en-Provence (July 2020 with Sir Simon Rattle/Simon McBurney) as well as concerts and lied recital tours could not take place, other engagements arise at short notice, often only as streamed concerts, for instance the Monday concerts of the Bavarian State Opera, or for audiences with a limited number of persons, such as the MDR Music Summer or the Festival d’Aix. A performance of Othmar Schoeck’s Elegie with the Basel Chamber Orchestra conducted by Heinz Holliger is intended to re-open the Basel Casino in August 2020.
